Review: The Beggar’s Opera
On the day that 500,000 people were marching against the government's cuts in London, and the culture secretary was twittering away at that jolly knees-up and...
Marcus Emerton
Belt Up Weekend: Review – Atrium
How do you write a review of something that possibly never actually happened? I mean to say, I know I sat in a room while people did things in front of me, bu...
Belt Up Weekend: Review – Lorca is Dead
The Bureau of Surrealist Research are staging a play about the death of Lorca. Except that he's not dead yet and in fact, no-one really knows what year it i...
Belt Up Weekend: When audiences turn bad!
If your idea of a good night at the theatre is sitting silently in the dark and passively observing while the actors have all the fun, it's probably safe to s...
Belt Up Weekend: A touch of the surreal
Written and directed by Dominic J Allen, Belt Up Theatre's Lorca is Dead is a remarkably complex play for something that is also a hell of a lot of...
Belt Up Weekend: Taking over Southwark Playhouse
When you've spent two days holed up under a railway arch with the directors and ensemble of Belt Up Theatre, phrases that would seem odd in any other context - ...